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By applying open science principles in your work you are making a larger impact with your research and teaching. On this page we show a curation of contributions at TU Delft and beyond.

If you want to talk about your work in open science, be a guest editor or have seen/read something worthwhile, feel free to share it with openscience@tudelft.nl for curation on this page.

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When frustration leads to inspiration for open science

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Open Educational Resources help master’s students to start off on the right foot

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Powerful open platform supports graduation process for master’s students

Trouble selecting a thesis topic, lack of motivation and dealing with a language barrier. These are just some of the challenges master’s students face when it comes to the graduation process.

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Academic change is necessary to fully reap the benefits of citizen science

‘Does the academic system actually allow young researchers to do co-production research?’ That was the central question PhD Boram Kim posed during a Citizen Science lunch at TU Delft. As an expert in the field of citizen science, she observes several barriers conducting participatory research.

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The importance of Open Science for the maritime industry

Ships aren’t the only structures to have a hard time at sea. The emergence of offshore wind farms has only increased the need for knowledge about the impact of waves on maritime structures. Peter Wellens is an expert in this field. He wants the results of his research to be shared as quickly and as widely as possible, with other researchers as well as with the industry.

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The rise of open hardware at TU Delft

The growing community that is Delft Open Hardware wants to help students and researchers make their hardware projects open source and reproducible. As one of the first university-organised open hardware initiatives, they hope to share their ideas and practices and inspire others to build a larger global community.

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Breaking down barriers to open science step by step

The call for transparency is growing both from within and outside the scientific community. Yet public sharing of research data is not yet taken for granted. Open science advocate Anneke Zuiderwijk is researching and developing tools to help improve sharing, availability and use of data and to make it easier. Thereby, she hopes that the social value of open science will grow and be utilised in more ways.

CityAccessMap: Addressing urban inequalities with open-source data

People in deprived city areas tend to have less services available than inhabitants in wealthier parts. They have less access to urban infrastructure such as pharmacies, libraries, sports clubs and even public transport in their neighbourhood. Reversing this tendency is a priority for today’s policy-makers. Researchers of TU Delft have created a new online tool ‘CityAccessMap’ that can help them in doing so.
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Solving a riddle with the community

Aircraft tell air traffic controllers and observers on the ground information about their position, speed, etc, thus allowing them to be tracked. Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and Mode S are two types of radar systems that allow air traffic control to receive this information and monitor aircraft’s movements and positions. Hence, ADS-B and Mode S signals are incredibly valuable sources of information for those studying air traffic management and aircraft performance modelling. In his new book “The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals”, Junzi Sun, Assistant Professor at the Department of Control and Simulation, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, offers a practical guide for researchers and engineers to unlock these open aircraft surveillance data.
[Translate to English:] City on the coast in the dark

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Enabling the Continual Transformation of Coastal Dynamics Education

Approximately half the world’s population lives and works within a couple of hundred kilometres of a coastline – there is a thirst for coastal dynamics knowledge at every shore. This is why, since its publication in February this year, the open textbook “Coastal Dynamics” by Dr. Judith Bosboom, senior lecturer Coastal Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, and Prof. Marcel Stive, Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering, has now been downloaded almost 4000 times in more than 36 countries.